{"id":13991,"date":"2025-01-31T15:27:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T13:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rega.news\/?p=13991"},"modified":"2025-01-31T15:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T13:33:08","slug":"sources-in-baghdad-report-a-potential-hostage-deal-between-israel-and-hezbollah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/sources-in-baghdad-report-a-potential-hostage-deal-between-israel-and-hezbollah\/","title":{"rendered":"Insider Sources in Baghdad Report Potential Hostage Deal Between Israel and Hezbollah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly two years after her abduction in Baghdad, a proposal for a deal is being formulated for the release of kidnapped Israeli national Elizabeth Tsurkov.<\/p>\n<p>Sources in Baghdad and Beirut told the British news site <em>Amwaj<\/em> that Tsurkov\u2019s captors, members of the pro-Iranian militia Kata&#8217;ib Hezbollah, have expressed a willingness to release her in exchange for seven Hezbollah operatives captured by Israel, along with Captain Imad Amahz \u2014 a senior Hezbollah operative arrested during a Shayetet 13 raid in northern Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Israel has not yet approved the proposal.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13993\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13993\" style=\"width: 724px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2-36.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"724\" height=\"483\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13993\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2-36.jpg 724w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2-36-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13993\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Women carrying Lebanese flags | Photo: Eyal Margolin\/Flash90<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Elizabeth Tsurkov&#8217;s Abduction<\/strong><br \/>\nTsurkov is a 36-year-old Israeli-Russian citizen, abducted in March of 2023 while in Baghdad as part of her doctoral studies at Princeton University. Last week, Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein announced that she is alive and that Prime Minister Mohammed Shia&#8217; al-Sudani is working to secure her release.<\/p>\n<p>In response, her sister Emma Tsurkov said that the Iraqi foreign minister\u2019s statement strengthens her faith: &#8220;We know that Elizabeth is alive. I am following the efforts to release the hostages in Gaza and hope that our nightmare will also end soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her family waits anxiously, holding onto hope that after nearly two years in captivity, Elizabeth Tsurkov will finally return home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly two years after her abduction in Baghdad, efforts are underway to release Israeli Elizabeth Tsurkov in exchange for arrested Hezbollah terrorists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":13992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[1544,1512,2337],"class_list":["post-13991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-security","tag-hezbollah","tag-hostage","tag-hostage-deal"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.7 (Yoast SEO v24.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Insider Sources in Baghdad Report Potential Hostage Deal Between Israel and Hezbollah - 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